Alyssa Drescher, an honor student at United South Central High School that was suspended and eventually expelled for inadvertently bringing a knife to school in 2014 has won her court case. The Court of Appeals …

Possible legislation to create a new Minnesota River Council will be presented and discussed at the fourth Minnesota River Congress Thursday at Turner Hall in New Ulm. The Congress will open with a networking fair …

The Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation has been chosen by the Minnesota GreenCorps program to have Hearts Beat Back the Heart of New Ulm Project serve as the host site for the 2015-2016 program year. In …

A Bird Island man was killed in a car crash northeast of Hector Friday afternoon. The Renville County Sheriff’s Office reports they received a call about a two vehicle collision around 3 p.m. Friday afternoon. …

A boating accident in Le Sueur County seriously injured a teen. Around 6:30 p.m. Friday on East Jefferson Lake 15-year-old Marah Bengston was waking boarding behind her father’s boat when she fell into the water. …

Former Twin Cities Archbishop John Nienstedt says he is “dumbfounded” by allegations of personal misconduct that emerged in an internal church investigation last year. Nienstedt told the Star Tribune that it pains him that his …